Nicholas Hereford

Nicholas of Hereford, closely. Nicholas Of Hereford, († 1420 in the Carthusian monastery of Coventry ) was an English translator of the Bible, Lollarde and reformer at the side of John Wycliffe.

Its name probably came from the south-western English city of Hereford. He studied at Oxford University, was ordained a priest in 1370 and acquired in 1382 the degree of Doctor of Theology. Nicholas criticized the luxury of the church, and confirming the right of every Christian to read the Bible to get to his personal beliefs.

He was condemned Wycliffe and other Lollards for their views and had 1382 at the court of the Archbishop of Canterbury appear to cancellation. When they refused to recant their views, they were excommunicated. Against the excommunication he put immediately in Rome appealed to Pope Urban VI. one, however, was sentenced to life in prison again and now. During a popular revolt against the Pope in June 1385 he escaped and traveled back to England. After his return, he was, however, by William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury, rearrested and his writings were confiscated and destroyed by order of King Richard II of England.

In 1391 he finally recanted his church critical views and was appointed to that of St. Paul 's Cathedral in London in the same year as Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral and in 1395. From 1397 to 1417 he was treasurer of Hereford. A few years before his death he resigned his office as treasurer and entered the Carthusian order. His only surviving work in which he has worked, the Wycliffe Bible.